Asne Seierstad Quotes

• When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

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  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Decided

• There is nothing I would change – to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Change, Book

• The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone’s privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

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  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Judgment, Privacy, Journalist

• The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country’s constitution as the ‘fundamental pillar of society’.

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  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Culture, Afghanistan

• The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories – what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen – are important.

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  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Book, Stories, Important

• If we can’t understand the Afghan family, we can’t understand Afghanistan.

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  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Afghanistan, Understand

• If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist, Name, Impossible

• If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it’s okay to write.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lose, Accept, Write

• If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Devour, Reality, Leave, Dead

• I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Book

• As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That’s how I went to my first war.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Able, War

Asne Seierstad (11)

Birth:	10th February, 1970
Nationality:	Norwegian
Profession:	Journalist, Writer

About

Åsne Seierstad was born in Oslo, Norway. She is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Oslo where she majored in Russian, Spanish and history of ideas. From 1993 until 1996 she reported for the Arbeiderbladet in Russia and in 1997 from China. From 1998 until 2000 she worked for the national television network NRK where she reported from the Serbian breakaway province of Kosovo. With Their Backs to The World: Portraits of Serbia, her first book, is an account of this time.

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